A study released on Monday examined decades of data recorded from 232 U.S. Geological Survey monitoring sites. 

Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon (pictured) told a CES meeting yesterday that the mobile ecosystem is uniquely protected from the Spectre and Meltdown processor flaws. “There are a few things that are unique about the mobile ecosystem,” said Amon,  “users download from an app store. On top of that, the impact you had on Android and …

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Block & Leviton LLP, a Boston-based US securities litigation firm, is investigating Intel  CEO Brian Krzanich’s sale of the vast majority of his Intel stock – over $39 million – on November 29, 2016. ‘Intel was aware of major security vulnerabilities uniquely affecting its processors for months prior to Mr. Krzanich’s October 30, 2017 adoption …

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Analogue Devices has combined switched capacitor and inductive buck conversion in the same topology to reduce the size of step-down dc-dc converters. Called LTC7821, this is “industry first hybrid step-down synchronous controller that merges a switched capacitor circuit with a synchronous step-down controller, enabling up to a 50% reduction in DC/DC converter solution size compared …

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Toshiba will start sampling this month two new additions, the TC35680FSG and TC35681FSG, to its line-up of ICs compliant with the Bluetooth low energy V5.0 communications standard. The new ICs are compliant with the new high-speed features, 2M PHY and Coded PHY (500kbps and 125kbps) added to the Bluetooth Ver. 5.0 standard and support all …

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I’ve been keeping an eye on Android Things – Google’s Android-friendly approach to IoT – and apparently it’s finding its way on to the floors of CES 2018, and AI is involved.

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The legal system may be providing relief to the FRAND situation which has caused untold grief in the telecoms world. The epic Qualcomm-Nokia legal battle and Qualcomm’s extraordinary battles with customers around the world, not least Apple, has made the FRAND system seem ineffectual, divisive and inflammatory. However judges are now getting a grip on …

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ST, which pioneered FD-SOI, has adopted Globalfoundries’ 22nm FD-SOI process. “It’s now clear to everyone that there’s a roadmap for advanced FD-SOI and it will become a mainstream technology for all the non-CPU applications out there,” Alain Mutricy svp for product management at Globalfoundries told EW. Asked if he was convinced that FD-SOI would scale …

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Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have created a gas sensing pill that measures gut gasses after being swallowed. It uses a novel gas sensing technique, that has now been patented. According to ‘A human pilot trial of ingestible electronic capsules capable of sensing different gases in the gut‘, a paper in Nature Electronics, accuracy …

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Described as a universal assistant for smart factories, Talking Pi from Joy-it is an open source, speech control intelligent module for systems and connected applications in smart factories and industrial control. The module, now available from Conrad Business Supplies, serves as an extension to Raspberry Pi, allows the control of lights, individual sockets or devices …

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